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Octus

Lead DevOps Engineer

RemoteUnited States only
Published
Role
DevOps
Experience
Lead
$160k–$215k/yr
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No BS summary

Lead DevOps engineer with 7+ years in DevOps and 2 years leading teams. Must be US-remote, strong in Linux, cloud infrastructure, IaC, containers, CI/CD, monitoring, security, and incident troubleshooting.

Core skills

LinuxTerraform/SaltStackKubernetes/ECS

Required skills

EC2/S3/RDS/A/ELB/EBS/VPC/Route53DockerJenkins/GitHub ActionsDatadog/CloudWatch

Optional skills

AWS

What you'll do

  • Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers, providing guidance, support, and technical expertise.
  • Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment processes.
  • Effectively prioritize workload with a constant focus on increasing developer efficiency.
  • Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure to ensure scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness.
  • Work closely with SRE to develop and maintain monitoring and alerting systems to ensure the health and performance of our systems and applications.
  • Work closely with Security to implement and enforce security best practices across our infrastructure and applications.
  • Collaborate with software developers to optimize application performance and reliability.
  • Participate in the planning and execution of disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.
  • Effectively communicate with stakeholders to provide updates on project statuses, issues, and recommendations.
  • Participate in on-call rotation to provide system support.

What they require

  • At least 7 years of experience in a DevOps role, with 2 years in a leadership position.
  • Expert knowledge of cloud concepts and services (EC2, S3, RDS, A/ELB, EBS, VPC, Route53 or equivalent).
  • Expert level knowledge of Linux.
  • Strong scripting skills for automation and tooling.
  • Ability to troubleshoot, diagnose, resolve & document RCA of incidents.
  • Good knowledge of database configuration, concepts, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
  • Thorough understanding of Security principles and experience in designing, implementing, monitoring proper controls.
  • Extensive experience with Infrastructure-as-code & configuration management tools (Terraform, SaltStack or equivalent).
  • Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes, ECS including managing microservices architectures.
  • Knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions or equivalent.
  • Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Datadog, Cloud Watch or equivalent.
  • Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Benefits

  • Competitive health benefits
  • Matched 401k and pension plans
  • PTO
  • Generous parental leave
  • Gym subsidies
  • Educational reimbursements for career development
  • Recognition programs
  • Annual year-end performance bonus

Octus is a leading global provider of credit intelligence, data, and analytics.

FintechMid-size
$160k–$215k/yr